Bronx Quotes · Page 2

I'm a Bronx boy to the core.

— Ritchie Torres

All my Latino side is from the Bronx.

— Jimmy Smits

New York, New York, - a helluva town, The Bronx is up but the Battery is down.

— Betty Comden

IN A PERFECT WORLD ROBERTO CLEMENTE WOULD'VE BEEN A YANKEE -A.MORALES BRONX NY

— Axel Morales

I grew up in New York City. And I lived in the Bronx in a place called Parkchester.

— George A. Romero

I have 100 percent Bronx pride, like it's a country, like I am the Bronx.

— Cardi B

I come from the Bronx, so I was exposed to every type of music you can think of.

— Romeo Santos

If you want to know the best jiu-jitsu in MMA, Charles 'Do Bronx.'

— Mackenzie Dern

The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.

— Kurtis Blow

Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo.

— Gerry Cheevers

Most of the people in the South Bronx are practical rather than ideological. Their concerns are bread and butter, health and housing,…

— Ritchie Torres

I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood;…

— Al Pacino

Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movie 'A Bronx Tale'…

— Philip Zimbardo

It is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He's done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than…

— Linda Kaplan Thaler

New York is actually a pretty safe place, and I think invoking the Bronx as a metaphor for the nightmarish urban environment…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

“K.C. wanted to look fancy for the crowd. I just wanted to kick his ass and embarrass him in front of everyone,…

— Russell Vann

Remy Ma is from the Bronx and I'm from the Bronx. The stories in her music are similar to what I've experienced.

— Erica Mena

If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to…

— Jonathan Kozol

I would encourage more development in the boroughs outside of Manhattan as well. I think it's great that this natural emergence has…

— John Liu

When I grew up I assembled my role models à la cart. I wanted to be an astrophysicist. If I tried to…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I’d get him out, get him home to Manhattan, and come back to my world in the Bronx. No lingering. No cuddly…

— Santino Hassell

God...my self in the Bronx always says that God has a funny sense of humor. ..He has a way of treating things,…

— Malachi Martin

“We were always driven by a gray-haired man in the foster-care agency car. I remember leaving that abusive home, pulling out of…

— Damien Black

New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge…

— Jerry Saltz

I found a guy in the Bronx who had an old plywood Kay bass that he wanted $75 for. He held it…

— Bill Crow

Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx.

— P. J. O'Rourke

As far as Hip Hop Manhattan was after the Bronx.

— Kool Moe Dee

I'm a Bronx girl so I definitely have my little wild factors.

— Erica Mena

I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.

— Ed Koch

Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable

— Majora Carter

The choices that you make will shape your life forever.

— Francis Capra

My father always said, 'The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.'

— Chazz Palminteri

Nobody wants to admit it, but they send the worst teachers to The Bronx.

— Ruben Diaz Sr

I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York.

— Wesley Snipes

I wake up every day, and I'm a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

“Guy, go get me a switch. This muthafucker done pissed the bed again.”

— Russell Vann

My story is the story of the Bronx, a story of overcoming.

— Ritchie Torres

Even as a kid in the Bronx, I wanted an adventurous life.

— Kenneth Kamler

So, I started teaching in 1999 in the South Bronx.

— Jamaal Bowman